From Bloom to Seed: Harvesting Sunflowers for Next Season’s Growth
Harvesting Sunflowers!
Sip & Savor: An Heirloom Tomato and Mocktail Experience
We had an unforgettable evening in the garden, celebrating the beauty and flavors of heirloom tomatoes and refreshing mocktails (non-alcoholic) crafted by mixologist Michael Bryan, featuring fresh herbs from the gardens. Guests delighted in an Heirloom Tomato Tasting, savoring and comparing a variety of flavorful heirloom tomatoes grown at H.O.P.E Gardens. They also enjoyed fresh […]
A Beautiful Harvest: FitKids360 Summer Celebration
This summer, we had the most beautiful time harvesting, preparing, and sharing a meal with the families we’ve been gardening with as part of our collaboration with FitKids360! It was a celebration of the hard work, care, and dedication these families put into growing their gardens, and the results were nothing short of amazing. As […]
H.O.P.E. Gardens with FitKids360 and Wormies Vermicompost
Bugs on the Brain! Treasure in the Garden! by Kathy Bego In August, many of our now lush vegetable plants are growing in great abundance in the school gardens. This green wealth attracts many bugs, creepy crawlies, and insects of all kinds. Some come to pollinate, others to devour. These tiny creatures can fascinate, repel, […]
JW Marriott Supports Garden Education
H.O.P.E. Gardens is thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership with JW Marriott, which has purchased 300 of our organically-grown plants to create a stunning plant wall at their hotel. This collaboration beautifies the hotel and significantly supports our mission of providing garden education to schools in Wyoming, MI. H.O.P.E. Gardens is dedicated to fostering […]
Community Connections through Gardening: A Heartwarming Collaboration
The students of TEAM 21 from Godfrey Lee Middle School, Godwin Heights Middle School, and North Godwin Elementary have recently engaged in a heartwarming project that bridges generations and fosters community spirit. The young gardeners prepared herb planters with kind notes for senior citizens at the Wyoming Senior Center, Wyoming SKLD Nursing Home, and UCOM […]
Growing Together: FitKids Families and HOPE Gardens Wednesday Evenings
by Kathy Bego Illuminated by the glinting early evening sun, teenage participants in FitKids and their families planted ten raised garden beds in UCOM’s community garden at Marquette Park this week. From late May through early August, families from FitKids will join HOPE Gardens staff on Wednesday nights to garden together. Each Wednesday evening begins […]
Winter Sowing!
Convert spring fever into spring seedlings with Winter Sowing! For “winter sowing”, we plant seeds in milk jugs or other semi-transparent plastic containers. Placed outside in January or February, these mini-greenhouses expose seeds to the cold temperatures that some wildflowers and other perennials need to experience before germinating. How about broccoli, kale, or dill? The […]
WZZM-13 On Your Side visits H.O.P.E. Gardens at Oriole Park Elementary
Our Programming…“helps them to see, now I can be a food grower,” H.O.P.E Gardens Lead Teacher Holly Smith stated during an interview with the WZZM 13 On Your Side television crew last week. “I can have a garden, I can encourage my family to have a garden. We can all grow food. Everybody can.” Echoing […]
MSU Students Tour H.O.P.E. Gardens
The rain didn’t keep this group from MSU’s Organic Farmer Training Program from touring our garden at Kent ISD. As we strolled through the gardens they sampled cucamelons, borage, lemon basil, and Concord grapes. We shoveled soil from the regenerative garden to compare it with the soil outside of the garden and noticed threads of […]